Saturday, August 20, 2005
11:18 PM
The Empress asked Chang Jin to 'liberate' the sickly Crown Prince (who was not the Empress' own son) from his numerous ilnesses, so that her own son, who was next in line, would take over as Crown Prince, that her seat of power and authority may be preserved in the palace.
Being the irresistably good, irrepressibly righteous and unbelievably benevolent medicine woman she was, Chang Jin naturally could not bring herself to agree to such a murderous act.
Unfortunately, she owes her life to the Empress, on top of the many favours that she's received from her (up until this insidious request, the Empress had been one of the few 'good guys' in the show; a victim of circumstance).
As if that was nto enough, the Emperor overheard the conversation, though he did not hear exactly what the Empress asked her to do. So he later tried to coerce her to tell him what it was, telling her it was an Imperial Order.
On the first occasion, she was torn between her conscience and her loyalty to the Empress, and on the second occasion, she was torn between her loyalty to the Empress, and the authority of the Emperor.
For both occasions, she chose the former, yet she did so without abandoning the latter entirely either. She chose, on the first occasion, to keep her conscience intact and requested to repay her debt to the Empress with her life, and on the second occasion, to accept the Imperial consequence of not betraying the Empress.
What makes me feel so strongly about this little snippet of the show is, what I feel, its relevance to what Paul said in Romans 13:6 "Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience."
Chang Jin valued conscience over the authority. She did not blindly obey her Empress and Emperor, but instead followed her conscience first, and so ultimately submitted to both her conscience, and the authority.
It wouldn't have been right for her to have agreed to help the Empress, but it was also an ungrateful and unfilial thing to refuse to help the Empress (for she would surely be unable to survive should the current Crown Prince ascend the throne) after what she's done for Chang Jin. So she begged to repay the debt with her life, so that she would not betray her own conscience.
Likewise, her conscience wouldn't have allowed her to betray the Empress by telling on her. Yet, it was only right to submit to the authority of the Emperor. So she told the Emperor that she could not tell him what it was that the Empress wanted her to do, and was prepared to pay with her life for this insolence.
Of course, she did not eventually die, otherwise there wouldn;t be all those romantic scenes with the main male lead later towards the end, and half the audience of romance suckers wouldn't have watched the show and it wouldn't be so popular.
In real life, she would've died twice over. Actually, she would've died in the first episode. Usually, there's no sudden third party who comes in preceding a flying arrow that deflects the executioner's axe to save the protagonist from certain death at the critical split second. The axe just goes down and the story ends like Kill Bill Vol 1.
John the baptist was beheaded most abruptly in the middle of nowhere significant. Stephen was stoned to death inevitably even after he was purportedly said to have looked like an angel! And Paul was crucified upside down most unceremoniously after all those letters and all that jail and flogging.
There is often a price to pay for doing the right thing, for following your conscience, for not doing unto others what you would not want done on yourself. Chang Jin could follow her conscience every step of the way (she did, every time, throughout the 70 episodes, except perhaps the single exception where she illegally 'zapped' some TOP SECRET medical records), I believe, only because of the confidence she had of being loved deeply. By her mother, by Lady Han, and by Min Zheng Hao.
How much more I could do if only I can always remember the divine love showered on me now, in the future, and forever more.
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Right now, the price I need to pay is the withdrawal symptoms of abruptly finishing 70 episodes of the fantastic series within 1 month. Chang Jin... Chang Jin!!! T_T
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